Tombstone epitaph., 1887-12-03
DESERT LAND ACT
Of March, 1877, How Desert Land Filings
 Should be Made.

being duly sworn, on oath depose and declare: That l am native born Cor naturalized) citizen, Cor have declared my intention to become a citizen) of the United States, of the age of. -. years, and resident of ......, and by occupa- tion a......, that my postoffice address is. ....., that intend to,reclaim tract of desert land not exceeding one section or GAO acres, by conducting water upon the same within three years from date of entry, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 5, 1877, en- titled "An Act providing for the sale of desert lands in certain States and Terri tories" The land which l intend to reclaim IS situated in. county, in the ...... Hand district, and is described as follows to wit: The. O.. of section No. ......, township No. ....., containing ..... acres. further depose and de- clare that have made no other declara
 ton for desert lands nor any other entry under the provisions of said act, that l am not the assignee of any desert land claim, that l have made an actual person. al examination of each and every legal subdivision of the land above described; {; that said land borders on (state what stream or body of water and describe the same). and that there is through or upon said land (name and describe all
 water courses, spring or other body of water and describe same). .... that said land is not naturally irrigated or watered nor overflowed at any season of the year, by the foregoing or any natural stream, spring, or body of water; that l expect to obtain my water supply to irrigate said | land from. that the character of he | soil is. ., that said land will not, with out artificial irrigation, produce an agri- cultural crop of any kind reasonably re- numerative, that said land will not, if un- fed by grazing animals, produce native grasses sufficient in quantity to make an ordinary crop of hay in usual seasons, and there are no trees growing upon said land, and that 1t does not contain suf- 6cient moisture to produce natural 1 growth of trees, that the same is essen tially dry and arid land, wholly unfit foi cultivation without artificial irrigation
 that said land cannot be successfully cul- tivated without reclamation by conduct ing water thereon; that said said land has been hitherto unappropriated, unoccupled and unsettled, because it has been i'm possible to cultivate it successfully or account of its dry and arid condition
 that it is a fact we'll known, patent anc
 orious, that the same will not, in it:
 ural condition, produce any crop, tha
 no portion of said land has ever beer
 reclaimed by conducting water thereon that there are no lands in the vicinity 0
 is tract, that are occupied by settlers
 al ! cultivated without artificial rriga-
 ton, that there is not to my knowledge
 within the limits of said land, any vein O.
 lode of quartz, or other rock in place
 bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin
 or copper, or any deposit of coal, tha
 there IS not within the limits of said la to my knowledge, any placer, cement
 gravel, or other valuable mineral deposit
 or salines, that no portion of said land i claimed for minirg purposes under tn
 local customs or rules of miners or other
 wise, that no portion of said land is work
 ed for mineral during any part of tn, year, by any person or persons, that sai' ' land is essentially non-mineral land, ant that my declaration therefor is not mad , for the purpose of fraudulently obtanin title to mineral land, timber land or az. cultural land, but for the purpose of faith fully retaining the land above describe by conducting water theron within thre r years from date of enty.
 My postoffice address is.......... Y .